September 1, 1991

Harry's Point of View

On the first day of the term, I asked Uncle Vernon to bring me to the station which he did. When we got there I unable to find the platform and he left me alone to find it by myself. After asking around about a train that left at 10:00 with no luck, I decided to try and tap my wand against the wall. At least, that was until I heard a very loud crash behind me. Turning around, I saw the same people from Diagon Alley. Two of them were fighting while a third was trying to be the mediator. Walking over to them, I tapped a short boy with auburn hair and a very strange curl on the shoulder.

Turning around, he said, "hi, I am Feliciano, Nice to-a meet you."

"Um, Nice to meet you too, do you know how to get on the platform?" I asked.

Nodding his head, he replied, "oh, yeah, Arthur said we just have to-a run through the wall over there," he said in a very thick Italian accent and with a wide, closed eyed smile.

I was just about to ask if he was serious when the boy that was fighting with the girl pushed her against the wall separating the platforms and she just fell through and disappeared. After that, we all ran through the barrier and appeared on a completely different platform. Just as I was about to turn around and thank them but they had all already left. Shrugging, I got my luggage put away with the help of two over enthusiastic redheaded twins.

After a bit of searching, I found an empty compartment, at least it was empty until yet another redhead entered saying that there were no free compartments. Accepting him, he sat down and started talking until the twins from before entered asking if I was Harry Potter to which I said yes, causing Ron to ask me a lot about what happened and if I could remember anything about the night that Voldemort gave me that scar. It continued like that for maybe five minutes. Just as we started talking about Hogwarts houses when suddenly, the door of the compartment door flew open, almost flying off of its hinges, then there was the sound of a loud smack along with a sharp hiss of pain.

In the doorway stood a girl with shoulder-length wheat blonde hair with one clump sticking straight up and bright blue cartoonish eyes behind square glasses. She shouted (read: screamed at the top of her lungs), "sup dudes! We need a place to sit and there is no space anywhere else."

Dumbfounded, I looked over to Ron, who just shrugged and nodded. She entered, plopping beside giving a long sigh. Behind her, five other people entered, two of whom I recognized from Diagon Alley. There was also the kid with the very bushy eyebrows.

"Who are you people?" Ron asked.

"Oh, those blokes are transfers from all over the world, some form of exchange program the headmaster wants to do. I think he will explain more at the school," Arthur said, pointing to the other people in the compartment, "anyways, I am Arthur Kirkland from England," he said sticking out a hand to both me and Ron which we both shook.

The next one to speak was the girl sitting next to me, in a very loud voice that almost causing my eardrums to burst shouted, "I am from the great ol' US of A, the home of the free and the land of the brave. The name's Amelia F. Jones, The HERO. The F, of course, stands for freedom!"

The girl sitting across from her who seemed to be her twin had long hair in pigtails, with square-framed glasses and strangest of all, violet eyes and holding a baby polar bear tight to her chest, reached over and smacked her on her arm and said in a very quiet, raspy voice, "I am so sorry about my sister, the F actually just stands for Francesca. I'm Matilda Williams from Canada. It's a pleasure to meet you guys, eh?"

One of the girls I recognized from Diagon Alley sitting next to Ron threw her arm around him and with a very wide smile proclaimed, "ello, gud to meet yuh, the name's Gabrielle Gordon Sharpe from the beautiful island of Jamaica, but please, just call me Gabby," she said, flipping her hair over one shoulder.

The albino sitting on the other side of Ron with very spiky pure white hair and ruby red eyes laughed a very strange and creepy laugh said, in a very loud and obnoxious voice with a german accent, "kesesese, I am ze awesome Gilbert Beilschmidt from the very awesome country of Germany," as he said this, he looked over to the short girl sitting next to him who I recognized as the other girl from Diagon Alley, with a huge smile and wrapped an arm around her shoulder and continued, "zis ist meine kleine Schwester Ludva also from Germany," the girl threw her brother's arm off her shoulder with a glare.

Turning around, she stuck a hand out to me said, in a formal tone, "it is gut to meet you, as mein Bruder said, I am Ludva Beilschmidt. I hope zat we will get along with no issues," she finished with another glare at Gilbert.

"Um, it's good to meet you guys," Ron said, "I'm Ron Weasley and this is Harry Potter."

At this point, I have started to expect the reactions my name would get but these transfers were different. Most of them had indifferent looks on their faces and others, like Gabrielle and Arthur had excited looks on their faces. Then there was Amelia. She turned to me and got up close and personal with me.

Pushing my bangs out of my face, she shouted, "seriously! Dude, that's so fucking awesome! I mean you don't look special or anything, but hey, you're a hero. But of course, never forge-"

She probably would have said more if it wasn't for Arthur tackling her and choking her while shouting, "America, you idiot! Leave the poor kid alone. You can't just do that to him. Have you ever heard of personal space? Obviously not!"

This went on for a while until Ludva stood up and shouted, "Both of you shut up and sit down! Arthur stop choking Amelia and you," she said, pointing to Amelia, "please start respecting the peoples' personal space. Now, ve vill have a peaceful train ride with no more fights or else," she said trailing off and everyone immediately shut up.

It was peaceful for a while after that, we were just calmly talking about school until we started talking about houses. Ron asked, "what house are you thinking of?"

Remembering the little Hagrid had told me of the houses and the boy that I had met in Madam Malkin's, I said, "well going off of what I've heard, it doesn't matter once I don't end up in Slytherin. What about you?" I asked.

"All of my brothers were in Gryffindor so I'm probably going to end up there. Though, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw isn't too bad either, once I'm not in Slytherin," he said with a slightly disgusted look towards the end. Turning to the transfers, he asked, "so, what about you six?"

"Well, to be honest, I'm probably going to end up in Slytherin. Either there or Gryffindor. It's not like you'll know until you get there," Arthur said.

Ron seemed like he wanted to say something, but before he could, Gilbert said, "same fer me und ve- I mean Luddy," he said, again throwing an arm around the German girl who sighed and simply ignored him.

"Gryffindor isn't bad, but why would you want to be with those slimy snakes?" Ron asked, "they're all going to turn out evil."

That seemed to be the worse thing that he could have said, because as soon as he finished, Gabrielle angrily shouted, "how rude of you! Just because some of them turned out bad doesn't mean that all of them will turn out to be the same. Anyways, I for one would prefer to be in either Slytherin or Hufflepuff. Not only do I have the perfect traits of both houses, but they are also the colours of my flag. It must be fate," she said, putting her hand on her forehead and sighing dramatically. When the others just ignored her, she just pouted and sank into her seat. This left both Ron and I with very confused looks, not knowing what she was talking about.

Feliciano then exclaimed, "ve- I just wanna be with either mi fratello, Luddy or Jap- I mean Kiku, and if not, I guess that I would probably be in Hufflepuff," he said in that same overly cheerful voice.

"Enough of that dudes! Let's talk about me!" She said in a very loud and obnoxious voice which seemed to annoy everyone, "of course the heroine will be in Gryffindor, the house of heroes, there is no way I could be in any other!" Turning to an empty space beside her, she asked, "what about you Mattie?"

Looking closer, there was another girl who had said she was from Canada. She said in a very quiet voice, "Either Gryffindor or Hufflepuff would be fine, eh?"

There was a moment of silence before the polar bear that was in the Canadian's arms, which I originally thought was a stuffed toy, said in a very childish voice, "who are you? I'm hungry," I almost screamed and Ron actually screamed.

After I was finally able to calm down I nervously asked, "um, is that real?"

"Huh? Oh yes, he is real. His name is Kuma-something," at this I was surprised that he doesn't know the name of his own pet, "the Headmaster allowed us to take a pet from our homes, eh? For example, Gilbert over there has a little chick he calls Gilbird," at this moment, I realized that there was a tiny bird sleeping in the albino's hair, "and then there is Germ- Ludva, who somehow managed to bring her dogs with her. Each of us actually has a pet with us, most of which represent something from our respective countries."

We continued talking about various topics, one of which was families. Here I learnt that Ron has five older brothers and a younger sister, Arthur has three older brothers and a younger sister, Feliciano had an older brother and Gabrielle had two older brothers, a younger and an older sister. On two occasions, a fight broke out between the transfers, and more surprisingly, it was the small German girl that somehow managed to quiet them down by shouting at the top of her lungs at them. After the second time that that happened, everybody just stayed quiet, almost as though we were scared of what would happen if we said even one word. It remained like that until a lady came around with a trolley full of sweets and Amelia rushed out, telling the rest of us to stay as she would get enough for all of us. I decided that I was still going to go out and buy something. It took a while since Ron and I were arguing over whether or not I should buy food for us. When I finally got him to agree, I went out of the compartment to go buy it, but I saw Amelia coming my way with enough food that it seemed as though it may be about half of what was on the trolley. I asked if she needed help but she just brushed me off and told me to follow her.

We had started eating when a short, chubby, red faced boy opened the door of the compartment. "Has anyone seen a toad anywhere? I've lost mine," he said.

We all shook our heads and Gabrielle got up, taking her left over sweets with her. She gave them to the boy and said, "none of us see a toad, bu' here yu can hab dees, cheer up. I will help yuh luk mon." She said going out with him. She had already put on her robes so she probably wouldn't be coming back unless they found the toad.

While we were sitting and talking, the door opened again. This time it was a pale, blonde haired boy, who I recognized as the boy from Madame Malkin's, flanked by two very large boys. "Is it true?" He asked, "they've been saying up and down the train that Harry Potter is in here. The name's Malfoy. Draco Malfoy and these are Crabbe and Goyle," he said, pointing to the two huge boys behind me.

I heard Amelia mutter something about James Bond and Ron coughed, probably to cover up a laugh.

Turning to him, Malfoy looked him up and down, then said, "think my name's funny do you? No need to ask who you are. Red hair, hand me down robes, freckles, you must be a Weasley," he said, which made the tips of Ron's ears go red, whether in anger, embarrassment or even both, I could not tell.

We each introduced ourselves to him and when I went, he turned to me, sticking a hand out to me, he said, "you'll soon find, Poter that some friends are better than others. I wouldn't go making friends with blood traitors and mudbloods if I were you." He said with a very annoying smirk on his face.

Angrily, Ron and I stood up, but Amelia went towards Malfoy looking ready to punch him in the face, but one of the two boys stood in the way, who she just punched in the face, knocking him unconscious. When the other boy went to attack her, she gave him the same treatment. Malfoy just just looked at his two lackeys and ran off, shouting about how 'his father would be hearing about this.'

After everything calmed down Arthur was shouting at her in a language I had never heard before, but strangely enough it sounded like a mixture of the few foreign languages that I had heard before. When the five minutes notice came on, Ron and I quickly dragged on our robes while the transfers gathered their things as they already had on their robes. By the time the train finally stopped I was still speechless after what happened on the train and so was Ron so we exited the train quietly. The transfers were the opposite as they were very loud and fighting all the way off of the train.

Well, that is it. Sorry it took so long, but the updates should be more frequent now since I'm finally on summer break. Yay! My last exam was actually on Monday, but I was working on something for my country's independence day that you may find on my profile. The last thing is about spelling. I am from Jamaica, where we use British spelling, so the American readers need to watch out for that. Well, Adios.